Crossword-Solution: MANIOC 6 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Hot manioc cakes are the common every-day accompaniment to a French planter's breakfast at Mauritius, and through the medium of these the Chinese robbed several houses.

Among others, the preparation of tapioca from the root of the manioc has recently been attended with great success.

Torres commenced, then, by applying to his lips a flask which he carried at his side; it contained the liquor generally known under the name of _“chica”_ in Peru, and more particularly under that of _“caysuma”_ in the Upper Amazon, to which fermented distillation of the root of the sweet manioc the captain had added a good dose of _“tafia”_ or native rum.

This square space, washed on its sides by the waters of the river and its tributary, was destined to be cleared, plowed, planted, and sown, and the following year fields of manioc, coffee-shrubs, sugar-canes, arrowroot, maize, and peanuts would occupy the ground so recently covered by the trees.

The traditional soup of fragrant herbs; cake, so often made to replace bread in Brazil, composed of the flour of the manioc thoroughly impregnated with the gravy of meat and tomato jelly; poultry with rice, swimming in a sharp sauce made of vinegar and _“malagueta;”_ a dish of spiced herbs, and cold cake sprinkled with cinnamon, formed enough to tempt a poor monk reduced to the ordinary meager fare of his parish.